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Astronauts in bulky spatial suits go alongside arrays of quadratical solar collectors and glass arches on a dusty gray surface. The earth can be seen in a black, starry sky. | Credit: ESA – P. Carril
South Korea’s space ambitions continue to grow.
The nation wants to build a moon base by 2025, the Korea Times reported on Thursday (July 17), citing a long-term Exploration Roadmap, which the Korea Aerospace Administration (KASA) created on the same day during a hearing at the National Research Foundation of Korea in Daeejeon.
This roadmap “describes five core missions, including the exploration of Low Earth’s orbit and microgravitation, moon research as well as solar and space missions,” wrote the Korea Times.
Kasa, which was founded only last year, aims to develop local moon landing and hiking technology as well as the ability to extract and take advantage of moon -resistance such as water ice cream.
Some of these works are already underway. For example, the Korea Institute for Geosciences and Mineral Resources recently used prototypes moon Rovers in an abandoned coal mine that tested tech, which could be used for space mining on the street.
And South Korea already has some experiences on and around the moon. In August 2022, the nation started its first moon probe – the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter or Danuri – on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Danuri reached the lunar orbit four months later and is still strong and is studying the moon with its instruments.
South Korea had already pointed the moon surface; Officials said they wanted to put a robotland on the moon by 2032. But the newly unveiled road map increases the use. The nation is planning to develop a new, presumably more capable moonlander by 2040, “with the aim of building an economic base by 2045,” wrote the Korea Times.
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South Korea is not the only nation with moon base ambitions. The United States also plan to build one or more moon outposts over the Artemis program of NASA over the next ten years. China also works towards the goal in cooperation with Russia and other nations. And India said it wants to build a moon base by 2047.
Incidentally, the moon is not the only distant destination of Kasa. The agency would also like to carry out the first Mars landing of South Korea by 2045.
